Volume 39, Issue 3

February 1989

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ARTICLES

General Physics, Atomic and Molecular Structure

Reduced potential-energy curves for diatomic molecules

Joel Tellinghuisen, Stuart D. Henderson, Derek Austin, Kenneth P. Lawley, and Robert J. Donovan

Phys. Rev. A 39, 925 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Observation of a motion-induced phase shift of neutron de Broglie waves passing through matter near a nuclear resonance

M. Arif, H. Kaiser, R. Clothier, S. A. Werner, W. A. Hamilton, A. Cimmino, and A. G. Klein

Phys. Rev. A 39, 931 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Measurement of quasistatic Maxwell’s displacement current

D. F. Bartlett and Glenn Gengel

Phys. Rev. A 39, 938 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Approximations used in calculating many-body effects in resonant [(dtμ)dee $]^{*}$ formation

James S. Cohen and M. Leon

Phys. Rev. A 39, 946 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Implication of nonintegral occupation number and Fermi-Dirac statistics in the local-spin-density approximation applied to finite systems

S. Dhar

Phys. Rev. A 39, 952 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Proton maser gain

Donald L. Ensley

Phys. Rev. A 39, 958 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Binding energies for p electrons in negative alkaline-earth elements

Charlotte Froese Fischer

Phys. Rev. A 39, 963 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

SU(1,1) coherent-state dynamics: A path-integral approach

Christopher C. Gerry

Phys. Rev. A 39, 971 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Gauge-invariance method for accurate atomic-physics calculations: Application to relativistic polarizabilities

S. P. Goldman

Phys. Rev. A 39, 976 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Multiplicity of symmetry-broken Hartree-Fock solutions in multiple bonds and atomic clusters: An asymptotic view

M. B. Lepetit, J. P. Malrieu, and M. Pelissier

Phys. Rev. A 39, 981 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Exchange-only density-functional theory in an exactly soluble model

Yan Li and J. B. Krieger

Phys. Rev. A 39, 992 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Possible spin-0–spin-(3/2 bound system: ( $π^{+}$ $Ω^{-}$ ) atom

Xiaotong Song and You-shan Dai

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1002 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Theory for the polarizability of small spherical metallic clusters

P. Stampfli and K. H. Bennemann

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1007 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Nonrelativistic calculation of electron bremsstrahlung angular distributions of recoiled electrons

H. K. Tseng

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1012 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Vacuum-polarization correction in muonic molecules

Piotr Petelenz and Vedene H. Smith, Jr.

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1016 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Atomic and Molecular Collision Processes and Interactions

Quenching of low-lying Rydberg states of Na colliding with ground-state He: A semiclassical approach

A. Kumar, N. F. Lane, and M. Kimura

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1020 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Electron-impact ionization of uranium atomic ions

M. S. Pindzola and M. J. Buie

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1029 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Stopping powers and mean excitation energies of the transition metals from iron to zinc

John R. Sabin and Jens Oddershede

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1033 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Collisional quenching of 2 ${}^{3}P$ and 2 ${}^{4}P$ states in 33-MeV two- and three-electron Mg ions

G.-J. Yu, R. L. Watson, B. B. Bandong, C. Can, G. Sampoll, E. Moler, and R. J. Maurer

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1041 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Thin-film inhomogeneities studied by energy-loss measurements using ion beams

N. E. Capuj, J. C. Eckardt, G. H. Lantschner, N. R. Arista, and M. M. Jakas

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1049 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Interaction with Radiation

Dielectronic recombination process in laser-produced tantalum plasmas

C. Bauche-Arnoult, J. Bauche, E. Luc-Koenig, J.-F. Wyart, R. M. More, C. Chenais-Popovics, J.-C. Gauthier, J.-P. Geindre, and N. Tragin

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1053 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Interference and stabilization in the quasibound Stark spectrum

C. Chardonnet, D. Delande, and J. C. Gay

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1066 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Energy shifts of Kα x-ray satellites in low-Z atoms

Moshe Deutsch

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1077 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Optical pumping technique for measuring small nuclear quadrupole shifts in ${}^{1}S_{0}$ atoms and testing spatial isotropy

S. K. Lamoreaux, J. P. Jacobs, B. R. Heckel, F. J. Raab, and E. N. Fortson

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1082 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Multiphoton ionization of rare gases using multichannel-quantum-defect theory

A. L’Huillier, X. Tang, and P. Lambropoulos

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1112 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Spin-spin cross relaxation and spin-Hamiltonian spectroscopy by optical pumping of $\Pr^{3 +}$ : ${LaF}_{3}$

M. Lukac, F. W. Otto, and E. L. Hahn

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1123 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Keldysh approximation, $A^{2}$ , and strong-field ionization

P. W. Milonni and J. R. Ackerhalt

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1139 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

L $β_{2}$ ,15 x-ray spectra of elements between ${}_{41}{Nb}$ and ${}_{51}{Sb}$

Pirjo Putila-Mäntylä and Gunnar Graeffe

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1149 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Photoionization of excited atomic oxygen: Theory and calculations

Roberta P. Saxon, R. K. Nesbet, and C. J. Noble

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1156 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Precision measurement of the 1s2s $^{1}$ $S_{0}$ -1s2p $^{1}$ $P_{1}$ interval in heliumlike beryllium

T. J. Scholl, R. A. Holt, and S. D. Rosner

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1163 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Angular distribution of ejected electrons in resonant Auger processes of Ar, Kr, and Xe

Thomas A. Carlson, David R. Mullins, Charles E. Beall, Brian W. Yates, James W. Taylor, Dennis W. Lindle, and Frederick A. Grimm

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1170 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Kinetic energy distributions of ionic fragments produced by subpicosecond multiphoton ionization of $N_{2}$

K. Boyer, T. S. Luk, J. C. Solem, and C. K. Rhodes

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1186 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Quantum Optics, Nonlinear Optics, and Related Topics

Effects of colored pump noise on intensity correlations of a single-mode dye laser

Paul D. Lett and E. C. Gage

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1193 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Photoelectron waiting times and atomic state reduction in resonance fluorescence

H. J. Carmichael, Surendra Singh, Reeta Vyas, and P. R. Rice

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1200 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Missing-state analysis: A method for determining the origin of molecular nonlinear optical properties

C. W. Dirk and M. G. Kuzyk

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1219 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Mechanism of optical phase conjugation by stimulated Brillouin scattering

Qihuang Gong, Yong Huang, and Jiasun Yang

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1227 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Single-mode instability in optical bistability

L. A. Orozco, H. J. Kimble, A. T. Rosenberger, L. A. Lugiato, M. L. Asquini, M. Brambilla, and L. M. Narducci

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1235 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Excess spontaneous emission in non-Hermitian optical systems. I. Laser amplifiers

A. E. Siegman

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1253 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Excess spontaneous emission in non-Hermitian optical systems. II. Laser oscillators

A. E. Siegman

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1264 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Thomas precession and squeezed states of light

D. Han, E. E. Hardekopf, and Y. S. Kim

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1269 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Regular and chaotic dynamics of optically pumped molecular lasers

J. V. Moloney, W. Forysiak, J. S. Uppal, and R. G. Harrison

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1277 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Plasmas and Fluids

Solvable model of the Fokker-Planck equation without detailed balance

Hu Gang

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1286 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Group-theoretical derivation of hydrodynamic equations: Symmetry breaking

P. B. Visscher

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1293 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Extraction of transport coefficients from correlation functions

W. T. Logan and P. B. Visscher

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1298 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Fluctuations and dissipation in a fluid under shear: Linear dynamics

James F. Lutsko, James W. Dufty, and Shankar P. Das

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1311 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Viscoelasticity near the sol-gel transition

James E. Martin, Douglas Adolf, and Jess P. Wilcoxon

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1325 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Glass transition and bond-orientational symmetries in rapidly supercooled one-component plasmas: Monte Carlo simulation study

Shuji Ogata and Setsuo Ichimaru

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1333 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Measurements of lateral thermal smoothing of 0.53-μm laser intensity nonuniformities via shock-wave analysis

C. L. Shepard and P. M. Campbell

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1344 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Dynamic equilibrium fluctuations of fluid droplets

L. C. Sparling and J. E. Sedlak

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1351 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Statistical Physics, Biological Physics, and Many-Body Topics

Quantitative growth law of diffusion-limited aggregates and their small-mass behavior

G. Daccord

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1365 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Heat capacity associated with nematic-smetic- $A_{1}$ -smectic-A¯-smectic-A(crenelated)-smectic- $A_{2}$ phase sequence

K. Ema, C. W. Garland, G. Sigaud, and Nguyen Huu Tinh

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1369 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Ensemble processing and the global characterization of temporal and spatial fluctuations

Hirokazu Fujisaka and Masayoshi Inoue

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1376 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Boundary conditions of the diffusion equation and applications

K. Furutsu

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1386 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Microscopic theory for cross-linked macromolecules. I. Broken symmetry, rigidity, and topology

Paul Goldbart and Nigel Goldenfeld

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1402 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Microscopic theory for cross-linked macromolecules. II. Replica theory of the transition to the solid state

Paul Goldbart and Nigel Goldenfeld

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1412 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Information-theoretic study of pattern formation: Rate of entropy production of random fractals

J. H. Kaufman, O. R. Melroy, and G. M. Dimino

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1420 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

$P^{KLM}$ expansion of the scattering kernel of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation and its convergence rate

G. Kügerl and F. Schürrer

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1429 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Electric-field-induced molecular reorientation of a magnetically biased ferronematic liquid-crystal film

B. J. Liang and Shu-Hsia Chen

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1441 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Theory of the one-variable Fokker-Planck equation

Toru Miyazawa

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1447 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Asymptotically exact evaluation of $T_{1}$ and $T_{2}$ for a two-level system coupled to a bath with dichotomic colored noise

P. Reineker, B. Kaiser, and A. M. Jayannavar

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1469 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Effective field approach for long-range dissolved DNA polymer dynamics

V. K. Saxena, L. L. Van Zandt, and W. K. Schroll

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1474 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Calorimetric study of Fisher renormalization of tricritical behavior in mixtures of octyloxycyanobiphenyl and terephtal-bis-butylaniline

K. J. Stine and C. W. Garland

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1482 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Subdynamics, Fokker-Planck equation, and exponential decay of relaxation processes

David Vitali and Paolo Grigolini

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1486 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Evaluating the fractal dimension of profiles

B. Dubuc, J. F. Quiniou, C. Roques-Carmes, C. Tricot, and S. W. Zucker

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1500 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Electric-field-induced twist and bend Freedericksz transitions in nematic liquid crystals

B. J. Frisken and P. Palffy-Muhoray

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1513 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental Concepts

Application of a recent kinetic-energy functional in a variational density-functional calculation of the total atomic binding energy

P. Csavinszky

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1519 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

${Li}^{-}$ resonances: The two-electron ionization ladder of ${}^{1}S$ symmetry

C. A. Nicolaides, M. Chrysos, and Y. Komninos

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1523 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Atomic and Molecular Collision Processes and Interactions

Determination of cross sections for collisionally induced multipole relaxation in alkali-metal atoms from Zeeman fluorescence intensities

R. W. Berends, W. Kedzierski, W. E. Baylis, and L. Krause

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1526 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Consistent treatment of electron screening in charge transfer

Frank Decker and Jörg Eichler

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1530 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Observation of electrons from the ${}^{1}°$ resonance of $D^{-}$

M. M. Duncan and M. G. Menendez

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1534 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Elastic electron collision cross sections for ammonia molecules in the energy range 0.1–1.0 keV

Arvind Kumar Jain, A. N. Tripathi, and Ashok Jain

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1537 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Interaction with Radiation

Measurement of the Lβ to Lα intensity ratio through a selective excitation of $L_{III}$ subshell in elements of Z≥70

G. Sree Krishna Murty, M. V. S. Chandrasekhar Rao, C. V. Raghavaiah, S. Bhuloka Reddy, G. Satyanarayana, and D. L. Sastry

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1541 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

High-order above-threshold ionization of hydrogen in perturbation theory

R. M. Potvliege and Robin Shakeshaft

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1545 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Quantum Optics, Nonlinear Optics, and Related Topics

Subcritical Hopf bifurcation in a NMR laser with an injected signal

A. Baugher, P. Hammack, and J. Lin

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1549 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Simple approach to the wave functions of one- and two-mode squeezed states

Fan Hong-Yi and J. VanderLinde

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1552 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Squeezing and photon number in the Jaynes-Cummings model

Mark Hillery

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1556 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Higher moments of phase operators and random walks with absorbing boundaries

C. V. Sukumar

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1558 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Plasmas and Fluids

Electric fields in stationary ion flows in symmetric geometries

A. M. Aurela

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1561 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Statistical Physics, Biological Physics, and Many-Body Topics

Anisotropy of sound anomalies near the smectic-A–hexatic-B phase transition

Harald Pleiner and Helmut R. Brand

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1563 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Theory of static correlations in rare gases for realistic model-interactions: Triple-point region and critical point

S. Celi, L. Reatto, and M. Tau

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1566 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

ERRATA

Erratum: Maximal symmetry group of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation: Atoms and molecules

P. Rudra

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1570 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

Erratum: Role of excited states in multiphoton dynamics

Bala Sundaram and Lloyd Armstrong, Jr.

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1570 (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Evidence for electron correlation during double capture in fast ( $v \sim 10$ a.u.) collisions

J. A. Tanis, G. Schiwietz, D. Schneider, N. Stolterfoht, W. G. Graham, H. Altevogt, R. Kowallik, A. Mattis, B. Skogvall, T. Schneider, and E. Szmola

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1571(R) (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Different polarization of the $A {}^{2}Π$ and $C {}^{2}Π$ state wave functions in CaF observed by visible and uv Stark spectroscopy

W. E. Ernst and J. Kändler

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1575(R) (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Demonstration of harmonic lasing in a free-electron laser

Stephen V. Benson and John M. J. Madey

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1579(R) (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Theory of a two-photon squeezed laserlike oscillator

R. Ghosh and G. S. Agarwal

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1582(R) (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Experimental measurement of nonlinear plasma wake fields

J. B. Rosenzweig, P. Schoessow, B. Cole, W. Gai, R. Konecny, J. Norem, and J. Simpson

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1586(R) (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Coherent-versus-incoherent multiple scattering in cholesteric blue phases

Joseph L. Birman, R. M. Hornreich, and S. Shtrikman

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1590(R) (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Statistical Physics, Biological Physics, and Many-Body Topics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Origin of the anomalous electroclinic susceptibility exponent in a ferroelectric liquid crystal

Zili Li and Charles Rosenblatt

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1594(R) (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Landau point on a nematic-isotropic transition line

G. Melnik, P. Photinos, and A. Saupe

Phys. Rev. A 39, 1597(R) (1989) - Published 1 February, 1989